The fixed-wing drone you see here is called the ScanEagle. It was invented back in 2002 as commercial UAV intended for use in fish-spotting, but has since made its way into service in the U.S. Navy. Generally, it's launched off a metal rail by a big ol' catapult, but Insitu's newest demo shows that there's another way:

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Vertical landing is a little trickier, but not impossible. The hovering helper quad just dangles a hook and the drone flies into it, gets caught, and is gingerly lowered to the ground.

It's a promising synergy. Quadcopters are highly manuverable and very good at going up and down, but they just can't match the range and power-efficiency of fixed-wing fliers. Those fixed-wing drones aren't nearly as good at taking off though. This is the best of both worlds.

And as Popular Science points out, the ScanEagle is among the drones that the FAA has cleared for civilian use, which means this specific pairing could be coming to a neighborhood near you as well as the battlefield.